Do you think your organization's risk management policies go overboard?

[Sailboat Sis]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I know that you can't buy alcohol, but are you saying you can't even buy non-alc bevvies or food or help pay for the rent of wherever you're holding it?

Yes, we cannot buy alcohol, but that has been around forever. However, when we host a function, we must pay 100% of the cost. So say we have a "date party/mixer" with XYZ, we foot 100% of the bill for the location, food, etc.

I do want to say that I do not believe our Nationals is the problem. They are simply doing everything possible to cover us and themselves from a lawsuit. It is the insurance provider and our society that have made policies too strict.

Not that insurance even matters. If one girl is found to have consumed alcohol while underage, we would lose our insurance coverage.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Sailboat Sis

Yes, we cannot buy alcohol, but that has been around forever. However, when we host a function, we must pay 100% of the cost. So say we have a "date party/mixer" with XYZ, we foot 100% of the bill for the location, food, etc.

A date party I understand (in my vernacular a date party is where sisters invite dates from several fraternities or perhaps not from a fraternity at all and therefore you are the sole hostesses), but I don't understand the rationale of making you pay all the costs for a co-sponsored mixer. It seems as though it would put you at more risk, rather than less.

[Sailboat Sis]

We have to change our vocabulary to "date party" when we have what is really a "mixer." Mixer implies that the cost is shared. I do not understand the logic either. Also, what was formerly called a "date party/cocktail," where sisters invite dates, must now be referred to as a "hangout."

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Sailboat Sis

We have to change our vocabulary to "date party" when we have what is really a "mixer." Mixer implies that the cost is shared. I do not understand the logic either. Also, what was formerly called a "date party/cocktail," where sisters invite dates, must now be referred to as a "hangout."

A hangout? That sounds as though you are all going to wear skimpy tops and go without bras, LOL. And of course mixer implies the cost is shared...that's the point...

No offense to SSS, but that's some of the dumbest RM stuff I've ever heard in my life. Keep making the sisters pay for everything, and eventually there won't be money to have any more social events of any kind. Oh, wait...ding ding ding...we have a winner.

[Sailboat Sis]

Whatever the intention, that is how a lot of girls have taken it.

[Elephant Walk]

Yes, it goes way overboard.

[LexiKD]

Overboard no. Cautious yes.
As a business owner in today’s society I promise the safer the better. It really isn’t that organizations don't trust our own members but more that we cannot afford to pretend that lawsuits over ridiculous events do not happen. When you insure a large group like a GLO liability really has to become your first concern.
Although I sound like an old lady I promise it’s better for our members to learn this lesson now rather than later.
I think it just gives us another reason to become more creative!

[Boodleboy322]

The initiatives and work that our brotherhood has attained in regards to Risk Management are superb. However, when chapter specific traditions begin fading away because the fraternity starts getting too paranoid it doesn't rub off on the older alums that good. I'm on board with legal issues, anti-hazing, etc but for crying out loud when the chapter begins eating granola bars and going to bed early you lose some of the experience. J/K on the granola and sleeping early but you get my point.

Regards,

Boodleboy322

[Wynter]

Sometimes we go overboard a little, yes. But there's a fine line between protection and overprotection...